Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] come " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doone made as if to go after him , then stopped indecisively and came back . |
| 2 | The accountant realising he would not be fobbed off , tried harder and came up with some facts . |
| 3 | It is almost certainly from a Roman source — an autobiographical letter by Scipio Nasica — that Plutarch derived his picture of Aemilius Paulus , the father of Scipio Aemilianus , receiving King Perseus as a prisoner : " Aemilius saw in him a great man whose fall was due to the resentment of the gods and his own evil fortune , and rose up and came to meet him , accompanies by his friends and with tears in his eyes " ( Aem . |
| 4 | This was fine until the wind direction changed slightly and came across the fixed line . |
| 5 | On seeing the car , she rose immediately and came tripping down the drive to unlock the tall iron gates . |
| 6 | The RFC machines — mainly BE2s , Bleriots and Henri Farmans — operated individually and came under attack not by enemy aircraft but by artillery , and even by rifle fire from their own troops . |
| 7 | But the rivalry smouldered on and came to a head as the king advanced in years , without an obvious successor . |
| 8 | At the last moment , it veered away and came to halt by a vent . |
| 9 | One night , I remember , I woke up and came down again at ten . |
| 10 | In my dream , I woke up and came to the office . |
| 11 | came out that came out Joe . |
| 12 | If necessary , he would send Sergeant Phyllis Henley , who seemed to understand the ways of the family , to sit outside the door in her car until Peter Fleming either came out or came home . |
| 13 | Then she turned away and came face to face with Emelda Linley . |
| 14 | Joe trotted off and came back a couple of minutes later , holding a parcel . |
| 15 | The grounds for relief were , inter alia , that Lautro failed to comply with the rules of natural justice and to act fairly in that it failed before the service of the notice to inform the applicant or Winchester of the allegations being made therein , failed to allow Winchester or its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised company representatives the opportunity of answering or responding to the allegations made against them , failed to take into account the interest of Winchester , its controllers , directors , senior management or authorised representatives when deciding to exercise the notice ; that Lautro acted unreasonably and came to a decision such that no person or body properly directing itself on the relevant law and acting reasonably could have reached in that it acted with bias against Winchester and its officials , issued the notice at a time its investigations were incomplete and on the basis of findings which were erroneous and provisional , and failed to conclude its investigations before serving the notice ; and that Lautro acted ultra vires and in error of law in that the rights of appeal applied to any person subject to the rules of Lautro whether or not members . |
| 16 | Gareth took a step or two after them and I called him in an explosive croak , ‘ Gareth , ’ and he stopped and turned immediately and came back , bending down . |
| 17 | He turned then and came across to me . |
| 18 | He immediately turned round and came back . |
| 19 | One of the notebook crowd climbed aboard and came into the dining car , inviting anyone who had seen anyone or anything suspicious the previous evening to please unbutton , but of course no one had , or no one was saying , because otherwise the whole train would have known about it by now . |
| 20 | He straightened up and came over , directing his question at Delaney . |
| 21 | She got up and came to him ; she leant down and kissed him . |
| 22 | But he got up and came blundering on towards them . |
| 23 | And suddenly , astonishingly , astonished , she began to weep , great sobs bursting out of her , tears leaping from her eyes , a kind of howling noise in her nose and throat , and Charles got up and came and sat by her and took her in his arms as she howled like a six-year-old . |
| 24 | He got up and came at me with surprising speed , but suddenly the Hispaniola hit the sand and went over on one side . |
| 25 | I did it , she said in a clear voice : I heard someone calling me so I got up and came downstairs . |
| 26 | He got up and came to squat next to her , flipping through the pages rather impatiently until he stopped suddenly . |
| 27 | Someone sitting at a table at the far end of the cafe got up and came over to them . |
| 28 | He was in black — a thick high-necked sweater and , she noticed when he got up and came round the side of the desk , a pair of black corduroys that moulded his thighs as if tailored specially for him , as indeed they probably had been . |
| 29 | She walked on and came to a one-story building surrounded by a cordon of wire fencing . |
| 30 | Slowly , he walked on and came to a street with a lot of theatres . |